Sample-case.



H. BRA EN.

SAMPLE CASE.

APP LICAT|0N FILED lulu-:9. I916:

Patented Apr. 30, 1918.

WITNESS:

extended into stepped and,

lattice, here shown in two lhTIENIEtY BIEtAEN, F PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNQR TO THE INVENTURS NOVELTY UEAGTURING- COMPANY, OF NUTLEY, NEW JERSEY, A QORPORA'JTON OF NEW SAMPLE-CASE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented nipndtl, Mille Application filed Juliet), 1916. I Serial No. 102,658.

To (ZZZ whom it may concern: Be it known that l, Haney Bimini, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paton son, in the county of Passaie and State of New Y useful improvements in Samplotlases, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to cases used especially for the display ofsaniples and embodyingone or more stacks of trays or like receptacles hinged together by means of links in lazy-tong fashion so that each stack of trays, in closed position standing superimposed squarely upon each other, may be their contents. My objectis to simplify the construction of such. cases and to strengthen each jointed series of trays when in the open or extended position.

in the accompanying drawing,

Figure 1 is an end elevation of the improved case, showing one stack of the trays in closed and the other in extended position;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary plan. of what appears in Fig. 1.

a is the bottom or base tray or receptacle, which may or may not be detachable from the base Z), which has hinged to it the cover sections 0 c.

(m denotes the removable trays or recepscries arranged upon the base tray a. The trays are all rectangular in plan, each tray cl bein in the present case one-half of the area 0 tray a.

The several trays (Z in each series are connected at their ends with each other and with the ends of tray a by the links 6, the novel construction of which constitutes the essential feature of this invention. That is to say:

Each link 6 is a flat bar preferably straight in its body portion but having a lateral projection f at each end, the two projections being at opposite edges 7 of the bar. The projections f critend beyond the ends it of the body portionfi-of each bar somewhat to form shoulders g, and said ends of the body portion of the bar are oblique to its longitudinal the obliquity axis but parallel to each other, being such that each edge It :tormsan acute angle with that side oredge 'of the body part of the bar from which the corresponding projection 7 extends. This description applies to all the links excepting, the end Jersey, have invented certain new and disposition to display .ing to the co structions links, whose inner ends are formed as al ready (lQSCI'IlJ Bd while their outerends are left plain, as shown, saidlinks beingalso shorter than the others.

The links are connected with the ends of the trays by pivoting rivets or equivalent means in such manner that they will be parallel, but inclined with respect to the trays, when the trays are nested or in closed position but will form a substantially straight line when the trays are extended. That is to say, there are three e piidistant pivots in a horizontal central line for each end of each of the trays except the tray a and uppermost tray d, which respectively have at each end but two pivots The links (except the end links) are each connected with three adjoining trays so that the middle pivot of the middle tray is at the middle of such link and one right "and one left pivot of the other two tray is at the projections f of the link; the

end inks have those pivots i of the two trays at each end of the series not utilized in the manner just explained arranged at their outer ends and projections f in a manner conforming to the arrangement of the other pivots with respect to the corresponding points of the other links.

he arrangement is further such that when the trays are moved to the open position, the links will abut each so serve mainly to support the trays, which need not even touch each other, though they are shown in the drawing as touching. Prefcrahly, as explained, the cud portions of the links in effectform notches or looking or detent shoulders g-h, which positively and without slipping or wiping stop the opening movement of the trays as soon as such shoulders abut each other. This construction gives solidity and rigidity to the extended trays and distributes the strains to the best advantage and further imposes the strains more on the links than on the trays, which are usually made of wood and therefore accorclusually employed have to be reinforced to protect them against splitting or other injury incident to the weight of their contents and to frequent opening and closing H'lOVGIl'lelli'S.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: i

1. The combination of a series of recep' taclcs and parallel linhs connecting the till other and lilo links in each series have each intermediate link therein in vontact at both ends thereof with the two adjoining links.

2. The combination of a series of superposed receptacles and parallel links connect- '10 ing the receptacles lazy-tong fashion, each two adjoininglinks having at their adjoining ends lateral projections projecting in relatively opposite directions and :rllording the pivots between such links'and the two corresponding receptacles and beingadapted to abut each other and limit the lazy-tong movement of said series of receptacles and links.

In testimony whereof I niiix my signature. 

